2018 will be natural farming year: AP CM

Vijayawada, Dec 31 (UNI) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced the year 2018 as “natural farming year” and reiterated that the government’s commitment to encourage organic farming in the state.
Inaugurating the training programme for the farmers on the natural farming, being organised by the farmers empowerment corporation with the association of eminent organic farming scientist and Padmasri recipient Subhash Palekar in the Bible Mission ground, near here, in Guntur district, the Chief Minister said that he had christened the year 2018 as natural farming year. He said that he was striving to make the state as natural farming state and as part of this, farmers were being trained on natural farming at the training centre, which would last till January 8, 201